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CD requests WW to ask a large breeder of greyhounds whether the increase in litters requires that some puppies be destroyed. If so, is it sufficient to destroy merely the small and weak? Would this result in more males or females being destroyed?

CD once used the Field to tabulate ratios of female to male births in greyhounds (110: 100).

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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… The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …

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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters.
The 1874 letters…

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… of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. …

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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… In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …

… appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …

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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…

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… physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874 , while he was staying in London. …

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—by Asa Gray
WHAT IS DARWINISM?
The Nation, May 28, 1874
The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’
Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…

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… Gray
WHAT IS DARWINISM?
The Nation, May 28, 1874
The question which Dr. Hodge …

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—by Asa Gray
EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY
The Nation, January 15, 1874
The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…

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… EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY
The Nation, January 15, 1874
The attitude of theologians toward …

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’ Darwin confessed in January1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months. January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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… started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Darwin took Emma to a Sunday afternoon at …

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting,
An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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… later, would take his camera across the globe to observe the 1874 transit of Venus.
Tommy, …

… Perfilieff , a member of the Tolstoy family in March of 1874, Darwin included the line “I have the …

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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… in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the …

… experiments on live animals in Britain.
In December 1874, Darwin was asked to sign a memorial …

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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation
Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…

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… This point was not lost on Royer. In 1874 in front of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris , she …

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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin.
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… Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the …

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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…

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… In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man , he …